Game appliance



me. 11,1923. A @477,46

MELSMVYH GAME APPLANCE Filed June lO 1922 i Y ATTORNEYS Patented liec.il, t

HERBERT BENJAMIN SMITH, F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

GAME APPLIANCE.

.application fric-1 June l0, 1922. Serial No. 567,248.

To all w/l'omt't may concern.' the hand l2 of a player by the provisionot Be it known that l, HERBERT B. SMITH, an angular strap 13 attached tothe said a citizen ot the United States, and resident body ll, thisstrap being retained upon the oi the city of `New York, borough ofBrookrear face of the body in the form ot two l lyn, county ot Kings,and State of New minor end loops 14 and a major central loop 60 York,have invented a new and Improved l whereby the central portion of thehand Game Appliance, of which the following' is may be inserted to apoint between the maa full, clear, and exact description. jor loop l5and the rear of the body ll,

lli/Iy invention relates to a game appliance while the little finger andthumb pass and aims to provide a. member ot this type through both ofthe end loops thus ait'ording 65 more particularly in the nature of abat or an ideal means of attaching the appliance to striking member,which will present certain the hand. improvements over devices of thischaracter With a. view of causing the body ll to heretofore placed uponthe market. snugly bear against the palm ot the player it is an objectof the present invention to so that the body is virtually rigid with the70 provide a game appliance or the nature hand I prefer to convex therear face of the stated which may be associated with the body ll, as hasbeen indicated at 16, and hand of a player, and by means of which thusit will be obvious that the players hand such games as hand ball, punchball, etc., will curve around this rear face and the 2@ may be played ina more lively manner than convexity of the same will fall into the con-75 has heretofore been possible, aside from the cavity ot' the palm.

fact that the hand of the player will be pre- Further it will be notedthat I convenvented from being bruised or otherwise iniently shape theouter or plain face of the A jured. appliance to also present aconvexity 17 and A further object oi' my invention is that by thisexpedient it will be understood that So oi constructing a device of thecharacter first a great amount of skill will be necesstated by means ofwhich more velocity may sary in order to direct a projectile, such as abe imparted to the ball than has been hereto ball, which is struck b ythis `tace, and also a tore possible, by the usual method of protargreater velocity will be imparted to the jecting the ball solely by thehand. ball when thus struck so that the game will 85 Among furtherobjects of my invention be greatly enlivened, it being further unarethat ot providing a bat which will be derstood in this connection thatthe body ll capable o'fbeing constructed at a nominal may be formed ofany suitable material figure and which will tit into the hand so whichmay further enhance the results in that a wearer will not be handicappedby this connection. 9o utilizing the same. F rom the foregoing', it willbe seen that Vsfith these and further objects in mind there is provideda waferelike bat body ll my present invention embraces a game apwhich isgibbous in any cross-section, that pliance in the nature ot a batcomprising a is, outwardly bulged or rotund on opposite fio body adaptedto be grasped by the hands oi sides of its plane of general iiatness. 95the player, winch body may be strapped to Thus the objects of thisinvention are acthe hand it this is desired. complished it being ofcourse understood Reference is had to the attached sheets ot that the.strap i3 may have its loop portions drawings as illustrating onepractical emrendered adjustable bythe provision ot' slidbodimciit ot myinvention and in these views able connecting means such as staples 18,100 it will be seen that; which sl idably embrace the strap and divideFigure l is a rear View ot a player-s hand the loop portions one fromthe other so that having my improved appliance associated these loopportions will adapt themselves to with it. the various sizes andcontours of the plaverls 5@ Figure 2 is a side elevation of the gamehand, it being further understood that in- 105.

appliance. cident to the angular disposition of the Figure 3 is an endview thereof. strap that the outer playing face of the In rthese viewsit willV be noted that the body 1l is presented at a more eiiicientangle reference numeral 11 indicates the body of for the purposes ofplaying.

the appliance which may be associated with lt will be obvious thatnumerous modif- El@ cations` of structure might readily be resorted toWithout in the least departing from the scope of my claims; which are;

1. A game appliance in the nature of bat 4including` a body gibbous yincross-secjy in rear oi a striking surface on the forward face of thebat, which surface is convex.

- 3. A game appliance in the nature of a bat including a body presentinga convex another and adapted to bek rear face and a convex playing face,said body having a Width approximately twice` its length.

y Ll. A game appliance in tlie nature of a Wafer-like bat body, andincluding, in combination with said body, means on the rear face of thebody ifor mounting the bat in the players liand and including aplurality of linger a-i'ichorages, said anchorages including adjustableloops forming apart of a common strap presenting a longer intermediateloop 'for a plurality of adjoining fingere or' the hand. f

lillltlllilflV BENJAMN SMTH.

